Diane von Furstenberg is a Belgian-American fashion designer best known for her iconic wrap dress. Diane von Furstenberg was born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin on December 31, 1946, in Brussels, Belgium. Her well-to-do Jewish parents, Leon, an electronics executive, and Liliane Nahmias Halfin, provided von Furstenberg with a comfortable childhood. Her mother, a Nazi concentration camp survivor, …

Domenico Dolce was born in Polizzi Generosa, a small village near Palermo, Sicily on August 13, 1958. He grew up in fashion, since his father was a tailor. He has always credited this with the reason fashion became his medium of choice for expressing himself, something he felt a deep desire to do from an early age. He studied fashion when he was young and worked in his family’s small clothing factory as he was growing up.

Donatella Versace is an Italian fashion designer and current Vice-President of the Versace Group, as well as chief designer. Versace was born 2 May 1955 in the Italian city of Reggio di Calabria, the youngest of four children in her family. Her father was a personal financier to the Italian aristocracy. An older sister, Tina, died at the age of twelve from an improperly treated tetanus infection.

 Donna Karan built her enormous fashion empire in less than a decade on one extraordinarily simple idea: If she needs a particular item of clothing – a bodysiut, a wrap skirt, a chiffon blouse, a longer jacket – then every other woman needs it too. This theory of visually inspired instincts made her one of the top fashion designers in the world. In 1992 Donna Karan New York, then totaling…

 Born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1958, Dries Van Noten is the third generation in a family of tailors. Between the two world wars, his grandfather reworked second-hand clothes by turning them inside out and introduced Antwerp to the concept of ready-to-wear. In 1970 Dries’ father opened a large upscale fashion boutique in the outskirts of Antwerp followed by a second outlet in the city centre where he sold …

British designer is a lawyer turned designer. Born in Lagos Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and a Jamaican mother, Duro Olowu was raised between Nigeria and England in an environment that embraced international culture, art, fashion and music. From an early age, his enthusiasm for fashion was inspired by the unexpected mix of fabrics, textures and draping techniques of the clothing worn by the women that surrounded him.

Born in Columbus Ohio, Eddie Borgo grew up in Atlanta until arriving in New York, intending to become a fashion designer. While attending art history classes at Hunter College, he started showing an interest in the history of adornment. He quickly switched to freelance styling, networking through the ranks. When he began to craft one-off pieces for editorial shoots, stylists started introducing him to designers. Subsequently in 2002, …